[mickeyp]

What? Emacs has eglot built in. It has had native grep and find stuff for decades.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Gr...

You can change the exec-path to point to your cross compiled grep tool --- or you can change the command string to your tool of choice.

[skydhash]

I think for grep in emacs, the only thing require is the interface:

- result on standard output - path and line numbers on each line

A lot of emacs reliance on other tools follow the same pattern. While the default is posix, it has enough options to twist it to fit whatever OS.

[internet_points]

parent is talking about the external dependencies, grep.exe and java and jdtls etc., and in particular how they need to be installed separately from Emacs

[pooyamo]

Do other editors and IDEs bundle-in these external language servers? I don't think so, unless they are specifically tied to the language like Eclipse or PyCharm